Australia Severe Weather Season 2008/9

[Supercell Hunters]

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for LARGE HAILSTONES, FLASH FLOODING and DAMAGING WIND

For people in parts of the

NORTHERN RIVERS Forecast District.

Issued at 7:32 pm Friday, 12 September 2008.

A particularly severe and long-lived thunderstorm is likely to produce large hailstones, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and damaging winds in the warning area over the next hour or two and maybe longer. The storm has already affected the Grafton area and is moving towards the north-northeast. Locations which may be affected include Lismore, Byron Bay and Ballina.

Golf ball sized hail and strong winds have already been reported from Grafton and nearby Swan Creek late this afternoon and this evening.

It getting very gusty here and cgs going nuts!!!! Still holding!

[Supercell Hunters]

Typical! This cell died before reached us but gained some good lightning show. I have two best pictures of night. Doesn't look as good as others so far. The clouds are very smudged by strong norther'lies. We had some rain. Total 5.8mm.

Anyways, today is looking far better than yesterday. More instability and moisture and heat. Up to 29/15 at 3pm EST. Lifted Index is deepening towards -4/-5 over us during the afternoon with CAPE around 1200KJ. The movement of storms will be similar to yesterday.

Bring it on day 2 of the storm outbreak!

[Supercell Hunters]

Northern Rivers today's temperatures

Byron Bay: 23.5

Ballina AP: 27.7

Ballina AWS: 29.1

Lismore City: 30.4

Lismore AP: 30.6

Casino: 30.3

Warm one since March. No storms today due to Darwinites cloned their weather down here like their conditions today. (Dry lol). Looking forward to tomorrow's storms on frontal line!

[Supercell Hunters]

Forecasts for here over next 7 days.

Tomorrow

Sunny 17-30

Tuesday

Cloud increasing 19-30

Wednesday

Few showers 12-22

Thursday

Clearing 15-25

Friday

Sunny 17-28

Saturday

Afternoon shower/storm 18-30

Sunday

Afternoon shower/storm 20-32

PS: Storms and rainband coming on its way! Looking good on radars!

[Supercell Hunters]

Woot! That was hot one last night! It was 19 degrees! Warmest night since March! Now its 23/19 78%. Looks like humid and hot one today before the change later. Hopefully some storms to hit us this afternoon to cool down us!

[The watcher]

I read somewhere that some places in Australia seen 50c this week and its only spring...if thats true its monstrous.

[Supercell Hunters]

No place had 50 this week at all. Only highest recorded this week was Fitzroy Crossing at 41.2.

Forecasts for us in next 7 days are looking good!

Tomorrow

Mostly cloudy 15-26

Friday

Late thunder 18-29

Saturday

Late thunder 20-31

Sunday

Possible thunderstorm 20-33

Monday

Possible thunderstorm 22-31

Tuesday

Thunderstorms 21-32

[Supercell Hunters]

Forecast for Friday evening

Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Light to moderate north to northwest winds tending fresh northeast along the coast.

Forecast for Saturday

Isolated afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Freshening north to northwest winds.

Lismore: Shower or two. Chance afternoon thunderstorm. Min: 16

Max: 31

Cape Byron: Shower or two. Chance afternoon thunderstorm. Min: 19 Max:

25

Grafton: Shower or two. Chance afternoon thunderstorm. Min: 15 Max:

33

Forecast for Sunday

Isolated afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Light to moderate southeast winds tending northeasterly later.

Lismore: Chance afternoon thunderstorm. Min: 15 Max: 29

Forecast for Monday

Fine. Freshening northwest to northeast winds.

Lismore: Fine. Min: 15 Max: 29

Forecast for Tuesday

Some rain developing with the chance of thunderstorms. Northwest winds shifting southerly later.

Lismore: Rain developing. Min: 15 Max: 27

Looking good for us overnight into the weekend. Stormcast has strong deep instability for the storms until Tuesday while tomorrow and Sunday going for supercellular chacteristics. I won't be surprised about that. It gonna be hot for tomorrow max 32 degrees!

Bring it on outbreak!

[Supercell Hunters]

Its already hot and humid with nice Northeaster'ly seabreezes. Temperature now is 25.4/19.3 and feels like 26.7. Today outlook for the storms looking incredibly repeated since last October where we had tornado, hailstorms and violent supercells.

For today instability looks incredible at Li -8 and CAPE 2600!

Looks like one or a few HP monsters locally. Northern Rivers would be direct hit from most activity according to moisture profile and good solid windshear like on 17th December 2005 violent supercells. Any risk of tornado is low to moderate, could be anything according to windshear profile produce any rotations from any supercell monsters!

Now tomorrow is going far from the worse, instability deepening towards US Texas style supercells with severe Li's down to -10 and CAPE well above 3100!

Looks like best storm outbreak since last October yet to come! Bring it on rain and storms!

[Supercell Hunters]

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for LARGE HAILSTONES and DAMAGING WIND

For people in the NORTHERN RIVERS and parts of the MID NORTH COAST, NORTHERN TABLELANDS, NORTH WEST SLOPES and NORTH WEST PLAINS Forecast Districts.

Issued at 3:09 pm Saturday, 20 September 2008.

Severe thunderstorms may produce large hailstones and damaging winds in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Lismore, Grafton, Coffs Harbour and Tenterfield.

That Casino cell making progress in our way! That bloody beauty supercellular anvil over top of us so fast! Looks like some hail in it due to cold pool!

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR662.loop.shtml

[Supercell Hunters]

Here few quick pictures from yesterday evening.

That last picture dropped out constant freaky cgs and i tried to take pics of them once the mozzies are biting me!

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Sunday Isolated afternoon showers and thunderstorms, some possibly severe. Light to moderate southeast winds, tending northeasterly later.

Today is looking better than yesterday due to stormcast. Li going down again to -9 today and CAPE trying to make it stronger towards 2400.

Bring it on storms again please! It's 25.4/19.3 and feels like 27.2 now at 9am. Pretty heating up so early and i'm going to put a bet on storms earlier development today than yesterday.

[Supercell Hunters]

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for LARGE HAILSTONES and DAMAGING WIND

For people in the NORTHERN RIVERS, NORTHERN TABLELANDS and parts of the MID NORTH COAST, NORTH WEST SLOPES and NORTH WEST PLAINS Forecast Districts.

Issued at 1:26 pm Sunday, 21 September 2008.

Severe thunderstorms may produce large hailstones and damaging winds in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Lismore, Grafton, Coffs Harbour and Moree.

[J07]

<h3 style="margin: 0pt; font-weight: bold;">Sweat city for Sydney</h3> Sam Terry, Saturday September 20, 2008 - 17:55 EST // For Sydney and some other parts of eastern NSW it has been the hottest day this year, according to weatherzone.com.au.

Today Sydney sweated under the sun, already making it to 26 degrees by 9 o'clock. The mercury continued to rise, moving up to hit 32.8, a whopping thirteen degrees above the September average and the hottest day since last October. It also meant that it was the warmest it has been this early in Spring for 110 years.

It was very similar for the rest of the NSW coast, with temperatures ranging from about five to fourteen above average. Ulladulla topped at 29, the hottest day in a year. Newcastle also felt the heat, reaching 33, the hottest day since early January.

Tomorrow looks to be warm too, forecast to reach 23 in Sydney city. On Monday, temperatures could reach 30 again. So far, its been a very warm spring indeed, with no end in sight.

[Supercell Hunters]

Had a very fantastic supercell with strong to gusty inflow winds and heavy rainfalls. Lightning and thunder are just constant! They wouldn't stop and couldn't hear my dad talking!! Scored lovely 15mm here (at my mum's place in Ballina scored 12mm) and max wind gusts up to 80-90km/hr at times. So here of my best 12 pictures.

Might get a storm or two further into evening, i hope not lol.

[Supercell Hunters]

Morning. I will put up my lightning pictures up later after school. Its already hot and muggy here nearly 7am. Further showers and storms today with max of 32 degrees again! I would not surprise they be severe again due to deep instability still left around!

Bring it on round 3!

[Supercell Hunters]

I have more pictures including lightning and sunset mammatus.

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For this afternoon. Pretty nice storms firing up on western slopes and that going heading for the tablelands and eventually into north coast area later this afternoon/evening. Might get another series of severe storms or either supercells last few days! Hopefully get some more rains!

[Supercell Hunters]

A bit boring weather lately and over next few days. Mins between 15-19 and maxes 29-33 everyday. Thunderstorms coming back during next week.

[Supercell Hunters]

Today

Fine, a few clouds. Very warm to hot humid day with northeaster'ly winds.

Lismore: 33

Ballina: 31

Tomorrow

Fine at first but cloud increasing with afternoon/evening showers and chance of thunderstorm. Very warm to hot humid day with northwester'ly winds turning southeaster'ly later in evening.

Lismore: 16-34

Ballina: 18-32

Now its 25.3/17.8 feels like 27.0. Nice warm humid one!

[Supercell Hunters]

What a hot one today maxed out 31 degrees with insane humidity.

Tuesday

Clearing showers 16-28

Wednesday

Sunny 17-30

Thursday

Late thunder 18-31

Friday

Possible thunderstorm 20-32

Saturday

Possible thunderstorm 23-33

[Supercell Hunters]

Now we having windy northern lies again associated with northeaster'ly seabreezes. Temps are still very warm to hot with very high UV index of 10, its right next to extreme!

[Supercell Hunters]

Few showers/storms popping up on radar now. Looks like a stormy weekend ahead with hidden forecasts. Phew its so sticky here now with so muggy northeaster'ly winds.

its 30.2/19.5 67% and feels like 32.7 atm

[Supercell Hunters]

This afternoon was one hell of sneakiness! Those cloud formations are like tropical rain free bases with a solid cell near miss us by a mile in its north. Today was first time of the season has dewpoints over 20 degrees! Today was hottest day i experienced this season so far. Was maxed out 32.5/20.3 73% feels like 33.5.

Forecasts for mid to late this week going for moisty showery easter'ly winds. Bring that on!

[Supercell Hunters]

Scattered showers from tomorrow onwards.

[Supercell Hunters]

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for FLASH FLOODING, LARGE HAILSTONES and DAMAGING WIND

For people in the NORTH WEST PLAINS and parts of the NORTH WEST SLOPES, CENTRAL WEST SLOPES, CENTRAL WEST PLAINS and UPPER WESTERN Forecast Districts.

Issued at 1:01 pm Tuesday, 14 October 2008.

Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce very heavy rainfall, flash flooding, large hailstones and damaging winds in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Gunnedah, Moree, Narrabri, Walgett, Coonabarabran and Coonamble.

Lovely cells firing up almost everywhere in NE NSW district. Its warm, humid and gusty from N here atm with temperature at 26 degrees.

[J07]

Apparently, Canberra saw a 9C drop in temperature in 10 minutes yesterday as the cool change pushed through.